All 6 Uses of

divine

in

Story of My Life

I have been permitted to touch the face and costume of Miss Ellen Terry as she impersonated our ideal of a queen; and there was about her that divinity that hedges sublimest woe.†
Chpt 22

divinity = the state of being god-like; or of being a god

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders.†
Chpt 3

There was always one bud larger and more beautiful than the rest, which pushed her outer, covering back with more pomp, as if the beauty in soft, silky robes knew that she was the lily-queen by right divine, while her more timid sisters doffed their green hoods shyly, until the whole plant was one nodding bough of loveliness and fragrance.†
Chpt 7

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!†
Chpt 12 *

With a feeling of intense disgust you kick the mass of rubbish into a corner and go home, your head full of revolutionary schemes to abolish the divine right of professors to ask questions without the consent of the questioned.†
Chpt 20

Those are red-letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine poem, people whose handshake is brimful of unspoken sympathy, and whose sweet, rich natures impart to our eager, impatient spirits a wonderful restfulness which, in its essence, is divine.†
Chpt 23

Definitions:

(1) (divine as in: to forgive is divine)
wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
(2) (divine as in: divined from tea leaves)
to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
(3) (divine as in: divined through intuition)
to discover or guess something -- usually through intuition or reflection
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In the time of Shakespeare, divine was sometimes used as a noun to reference a priest or a person of the church. (To remember that sense, think of the clergyman as having come from God).

Divinity typically refers to a god or to a school of religion, but on rare occasions, it refers to the name of a kind of soft white candy. To remember that sense, you might think of it as tasting divine/wonderful.